‘Chelsea Ellis and Todd Watts’ is showing at Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland.
Leslie Bridgers
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Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
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Turn broccolini into a sumptuous meal with tahini sauce, pistachios
Layered with textures, flavors and aromas, it’s a template that welcomes your variations.
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Deep Water: ‘Built by Ants,’ by Matt Bernier
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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How to shake four simple ingredients into a superb daiquiri
“I think of the daiquiri as a bread vs. cake argument,” Dave Arnold told students at the annual Tales of the Cocktail drinks conference in New Orleans this July, comparing the drink to more baroque cocktails. “Cakes are delicious, and you can spend a whole lifetime working on cakes, but bread? With just four ingredients, […]
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Bestsellers: ‘Tom Lake,’ ‘The Wager’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Chaufa, Peru’s beloved fried rice, tells a tale of Chinese resilience
One of the most emblematic dishes in this South American country’s cuisine has evolved from a rich and complex history.
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The 9 hottest movies opening this fall
The dog days of summer will soon give way to crisp falling leaves, as well as a pile of colorful new movies. Still hanging from the branches, but about to drop, are works by such Oscar-nominated directors as Kenneth Branagh, Sofia Coppola, Errol Morris and Martin Scorsese (the latter two of whom actually won statuettes […]
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Bar Guide: In Portland’s West End, a neighborhood spot with world-class cocktails
The people who literally wrote the book on modern cocktails opened The Danforth about a year ago.
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Art review: James Parker Foley celebrates figures in transition
In his paintings at Sarah Bouchard Gallery, entities move fluidly from one dimension to another, promising a similarly transformative experience to those of us who view them.
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Deep Water: ‘Bird Baiting,’ by Jim Krosschell
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.